From: ahk@chinet.com   
      
   Jishnu Mukerji  wrote:   
   >On 7/8/2014 1:40 AM, Glen Labah wrote:   
   >>Larry Sheldon  wrote:   
   >>>On 7/7/2014 6:52 PM, Larry Sheldon wrote:   
      
   >>>>.....getting even with the competition?   
      
   >>>>http://www.foxnews.com/us/2014/07/07/tough-task-pulling-boei   
   g-fuselages-from-montana-river/   
      
   >>>No connection with current, but that used to be an electric railroad.   
      
   >>I don't think that area was ever electrified.  The Milwaukee Raod was   
   >>further south, and is now a trail.   
      
   >>This is the Milwaukee Road:   
   >>http://www.fruitfromwashington.com/History/cmsp.htm   
   >>Notice the non-Milwaukee Road line heading northwest from Missoula?   
   >>That is an ex-Northern Pacific line, and I am fairly certain that is   
   >>what line this was.   
      
   >That's correct. MRL is all ex-Northern Pacific part of BN that was   
   >divested to MRL by BN/BNSF. Don't remember exactly when that divestiture   
   >happened, whether pre or post SF merger.   
      
   Wikipedia says 1987, so years before BNSF. The company Web site sez that   
   they're the 8th largest railroad, which says something about mergers.   
      
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